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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last November, the league was seeking official recognition from the Student Council, undergoing many internal arguments over proper leadership, and sponsoring dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southpaws Win Battle on Seats | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Proper Name. In Atlanta, a charge of possessing salacious pictures taken in a nudist camp was placed against one F. C. Peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Tragedy in Chungking | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

More than a third of the babies who roam the Clinic's spacious quarters, which formerly housed a Russian War Relief center and a various string of restaurants, are less than a year old. Two 13-year olds used to be on the list but a lack of proper facilities has since forced the Clinic to set a 12-year age limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pediatric Clinic Opens New Branch | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Though the Kalmuses were divorced in 1944, Natalie's name still appears on all screen credits for Technicolor. She is credited with being a top color expert herself and was in charge of the color control department (which advises directors on proper clothing colors) for years. One apocryphal story is that her abnormally sensitive eyes perceive colors no one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Fast Color | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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